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I’m really interested in the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) phenomenon that’s grown off the back of the FLOSS movement. There’s a great spirit of collaboration in the air in general at the moment and some really interesting devices are being developed and their designs released. It’s amazing that the people taking the time and effort to create interesting hardware then release the plans for free to the world at large. The most prominent device to date is probably the Arduino, but there are lots of other different devices for different applications available. Where open source is really getting interesting is the area of personal fabrication with open source 3D printers like the the Makebot available, and affordable, and with the Lasersaur laser cutter currently under development. It’s going to be interesting to see what the future holds in terms of OSHW. Read more

Here’s a video describing the Untitled 1 exhibit. This exhibit connected a space within the gallery to the street outside. Providing an audio visual link between the two spaces.

You can try this web version of the “Sounds of Tallaght” exhibit. This allows you to select from a series of abstracted binaural recordings and images relating to places in the Tallaght. These allow you to experience these areas from a different perspective. Click on the pictures to hear recordings from these area. Please listen with headphones for best effect. Read more

Yesterday was the opening night of the “Where we’re at” at the Big Picture, Tallaght. It’s the culmination of 3 weeks of hard work as part of the Creative Campus project, a project that facilitated graduate artists to create site specific works for an underused space in Tallaght.

I got involved in the project at the start of the summer when the original call for artists went out. After a rocky start, with a second call being issued, we got properly underway at the beginning of the month. I got to work in a group with 3 fine art graduates and a graduate of the masters that I taking at the moment (Music and Media Technology). Our group was interested in interactivity and both of the pieces that we created were based on the idea of having the audience interact with the piece. Read more

It’s been 2 weeks since I finished a week of composing and recording as part of the Irish Composition Summer School. In the mean time I’ve had some time to take stock of the course and wanted to give a summary of my experience. The goal of the course is to compose a piece of music during the duration and have it played and recorded by a professional musicians in the final two days. This gives you 8 days to write a piece of music that will be played by professionals, a pretty scary task. Before starting the course I’d done some composition for college assignments and a bit of song writing but nothing too major, this was to be my my first major leap into the world of composition.

Great news the Dublin Fringe festival has been announced, ta da, and most importantly as part of the Dublin Fringe there is a quirky little event called Floor It. The whole show has been put together by a group of mavericks kept going with nothing more than spit and determination, with a budget that would even make Greece wince. For any of you too lazy to click on the link here’s the summary of what’s going down at the Floor It shows: Read more

You are here explores our ideas of place and our daily experiences of our environment through the simultaneous viewing of 3 routes through the city. It’s a rhythmic video, juxtaposing image rhythms at one time across the triptych with each third of the screen taking a rhythmic sequence from the music. The eye is to be engaged as much as the ear in working out the poly-rhythm the three screens create. Gradual transformation of all three screens to red and green at the conclusion. It was premiered at the Kerry Film Festival October 2011.

You are here was a experimental audio-visual film produced and directed by David Collier and Saramai Leech.